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When we study and try to understand his teachings, we should always bear in mind that all he teaches us has one purpose and one purpose alone, namely to direct us, motivate us and encourage us to turn back within to see ourself as we actually are and thereby surrender everything that we are not. All his teachings are therefore centred around and

did, on the other hand, speak highly of the practice of nama-japa (the continuous repetition of God's name) and he often advocated it as a useful aid for those who were following the path of

quotes the verses from the Gītā where Kṛṣṇa says: “Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you give away, whatever austerity you perform, do it as an offering to me”

Basic to any library are the excellent translations by Jaideva Singh of the Shiva Sutras, Spanda Karikas, Pratyabhijnahridayam and the Vijnanabhairava. These are widely available, published by Motilal Barnarsidass, and are the fundamental texts. Mark Dyczkowski has also done editions of the Shiva Sutras and the Spanda Karikas. These are also well

Shiva’s will, Shiva’s love, Shiva’s wisdom, Shiva’s bliss, Shiva’s activity, even Shiva’s language, all become limited in the process of contraction. Hence, a student should know something about how Kashmir Shaivism looks at contraction. We are the end product of the process of contraction: the limited individual soul, the jiva. Shaivism says that

I am without form, without limit Beyond space, beyond time I am in everything, everything is in me I am the bliss of the Universe Everything Am I SWAMI RAM TIRTHA